Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To make cloam. · To gutter (as a candle).
adj
Made of earthenware.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryClay. · Earthenware.
From Middle English *clom, from Old English clām (“paste, mortar, mud, clay, poultice”), from Proto-West Germanic *klaim, from Proto-Germanic *klaimaz (“clay”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleym-, from *gley- (“to stick, smear”). Related to cleam, claim, clem.
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